Blood Vine

The bloodvine moves extremely slowly. Bloodvines are attracted by warmth, particularly that of a living creature. They move only at night The bloodvine attack by injecting roots into its target. The roots are covered with a sap which anesthetizes the wounds so that the victim feels no pain. Once the bloodvine has seized its prey, it drink the victim’s blood via its roots. The vines must be torn away but doing so causes further damage to the victim. A bloodvine will not approach within two feet of a fire, and indeed it susceptible to fire attacks. It is fairly easy to avoid bloodvines if one is aware of them. They move so slowly that the potential victim can just walk away. They are unable to completely leave their agafari tree, so they will not pursue a victim beyond a few tens of feet from their tree.

Bloodvines live on the bark of the agafari tree and are found only in the Crescent Forest. Growth begins at ground level and winds its way up the tree. Agafari trees that have been completely surrounded by bloodvine can be found in the central portions of the forest Such vines represent a tremendous threat to travelers, as there are literally hundreds of feet of bloodvine in such infestations.

Bloodvines live on the fluids they extract from insects and small mammals. They can live for as long as three months on nothing but rain, extracting nourishment from the agafari bark. After a month of such deprivation, however, the blood vine loses the ability to move, and after three months the bloodvine dies. Each bloodvine is inextricably attached to the tree which is its host. Bloodvines cannot be transplanted from one tree to another, nor will a bloodvine grow anywhere but on an agafari tree. How bloodvines reproduce is a mystery, but it is impossible to eradicate them completely; kill every bloodvine on an agafari tree and within a month new bloodvines will again sprout.